First trailer arrives for 'Beetlejuice' sequel with Michael Keaton

Fans have had to wait 36 years for a sequel to the cult comedy horror "Beetlejuice", but now Warner Bros has released the first trailer for "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice", set for cinema release on September 6.

In the one-minute teaser, the titular poltergeist played by Michael Keaton appears briefly with tangled green hair, to the horror of Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder). "The juice is loose," he taunts, echoing a line associated with notorious US sports celebrity OJ 'The Juice' Simpson.

In the original 1988 hit, Ryder, now 52 and more famous to younger viewers for her role in Netflix's "Stranger Things" sci-fi series, played the young Lydia, who moves with her parents into a house whose occupants have been killed in a car accident.

A deceased couple, played by Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis, want to stay in their mansion and hire the crazed poltergeist Beetlejuice to scare off the new residents.

Whenever his name was pronounced three times in a row, this unsavoury spirit would appear. In the sequel, Lydia's teenage daughter Astrid, played by "Wednesday" star Jenny Ortega, inadvertently brings the ghost back to the sleepy village of Winter River.

Tim Burton returns as director, and Catherine O'Hara is also back in the role of Lydia's mother Delia Deetz. New cast members include Willem Dafoe, Monica Bellucci and Justin Theroux. Hollywood star Brad Pitt and his production company are involved as executive producers.